No it won't. This is a common misconception. More RAM does not equal faster. It's more like a gas tank. A bigger gas tank won't make your car go faster just allow it to go farther without having to stop.Go 16G. It will speed it up too.
No it won't. This is a common misconception. More RAM does not equal faster. It's more like a gas tank. A bigger gas tank won't make your car go faster just allow it to go farther without having to stop.Go 16G. It will speed it up too.
Go 16G. It will speed it up too.
No it won't. This is a common misconception. More RAM does not equal faster. It's more like a gas tank. A bigger gas tank won't make your car go faster just allow it to go farther without having to stop.
I use 2 passenger car vs 4 passenger car.
they are equally fast at 2 passengers but if you need to move 4 the 4 passenger will do it in one trip. the 2 passenger need to make 2 trips..
look at my thumbnail. my ram is 8gb so I have a 2 passenger car.
but my page outs are 0 my swap used is 0.
this means my car never needed to carry 3 passenger's so it was never slowed.
Either or. The point simply being, blanket statements like "it will make your computer faster if you add more RAM" is exactly what they tell you at places like Best Buy. My parents would never use more than 4GB (at least not while our OS's are using 2GB or less), so it wouldn't make a hill of beans difference.
Is 16 excessive for my planned uses? Or is more RAM always better?
Any help would be great!!
If you can afford to pay for a new Mac Mini, then why not spend a little more for maximum performance and resale value? Benchmarks and many apps do show a performance gain with more RAM. I've seen this for decades.
If you can afford to pay for a new Mac Mini, then why not spend a little more for maximum performance and resale value? Benchmarks and many apps do show a performance gain with more RAM. I've seen this for decades.
Please show us these benchmarks that prove MORE RAM = better performance. That is ONLY true if you do not have sufficient RAM to begin with. If you are using a Mini to surf the internet, then adding more RAM won't make it run any faster since the 2GB of free RAM (roughly 2 lost for OS + GPU) is more than plenty. I'm not saying someone shouldn't upgrade, but to make blanket statement that "more ram = faster computer" is (as I previously stated) what places like Best Buy use to get people to buy the "bigger computer".... If you aren't maxing out your RAM, then there is no performance increase if you add more RAM. As phillipma pointed out, his Mini isn't maxing 8GB, so going to 16GB isn't going to make any difference.
Show me benchmarks that disprove my above statements please.
You do realize that you have just proven what paulrbeers stated: you'll only see a difference in speed IF you don't have enough RAM to begin with. He was opening 16GB and 54GB files on systems with8GB, 16GB and 32GB of RAM. Of course the larger RAM will go faster, as it is paging less to disk when they files are opened.
Repeat the same test with a 2GB file and then see what the speed differences are. I'll tell you - there won't be any.
You can also do a little research on xlr8yourmac.com and barefeats.com. Every Mac I've used performed better when I upgraded the RAM, no exceptions.
You can also do a little research on xlr8yourmac.com and barefeats.com. Every Mac I've used performed better when I upgraded the RAM, no exceptions.
I've done plenty of research and there is a point of diminishing returns. Oh sure, you can keep adding RAM to ensure that you can concurrently run Photoshop, Final Cut, Aperture, iTunes, a few VM's, 50 browser windows using Flash, Mail, streaming video, compile some code, etc etc etc - but that is just a banal exercise to prove a point. It's not a real world experience.
You might be happy still using Windows ME?
You might be happy still using Windows ME?
As far as the timing of the 1333MHz RAM Apple supplied with it's machines (and the Crucial kits) goes, I calculated a while ago a 20.8% faster bandwidth of the 1600MHz CL9 Kingston HyperX Plug'n'Play. But 1600MHz CL11 is about as fast as 1333MHz CL9, which in turn is about as fast as 1066MHz CL7 (which, coincidently, are the specifications Apple installed in the recent years).Yes with a very minor performance penalty (3% maybe)
For the timing of the 1333MHz RAM Apple supplied with it's machines (and the Crucial kits), I calculated a while ago a 20.8% faster bandwidth for the Kingston HyperX Plug'n'Play.
Yes, but as I stated then the difference between bandwidth and real world difference (i.e. how much faster does a video encode, frames per second in a game, etc) is negligible. I proved that by providing my own benchmarks. I ran benchmarks on my brand new quad core mini with 4GB of RAM at 1600mhz vs 16GB of 1333mhz and the 1333mhz RAM was almost as fast as the 1600mhz. Video benchmarks were a hair faster, as was the memory bandwidth (obviously), but for handbrake the difference was a second or two (well within a magin of error). So again, the overall system speed is barely affected by faster RAM.
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No it won't. This is a common misconception. More RAM does not equal faster. It's more like a gas tank. A bigger gas tank won't make your car go faster just allow it to go farther without having to stop.
My apologies, you are right. However, it has been proven time and time again that faster RAM barely makes a difference in modern computers.